page_title: Bolton and Undercliffe
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bolton and Undercliffe / Undercliffe / History
caption_attribution_description: English: The Robin Hood public house - now a former pub.
context_page_description: Bolton and Undercliffe is an electoral ward in the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, England.
  The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 16,365. Bolton and Undercliffe covers the area east of Bradford Beck, between Shipley & Wrose to the north and central Bradford to the south. It is a largely urban area.
context_section_description: The Dudley Hill to Killinghall turnpike of 1804 came through Undercliffe, and the former Robin Hood public house was a toll office for the turnpike.
  The turnpike still exists in the area as Killinghall Road to Bradford Moor and as Harrogate Road after a name change from Killinghall Road.
  Cinema history
  The 750 seat purpose-built Oxford Cinema on Dudley Hill Road was of a stone construction, and opened in 1914.
  Sound was installed by 1930 and it closed briefly again in 1955 for refurbishment.
  In 1962 it became a bingo club for three days of the week and a cinema the rest.
  It closed temporarily for alterations in 1965 but closed permanently as a cinema early the next year reopening as a bingo club, now the Oxford Bingo and Social Club.
  The Coronet Cinema on Otley Road near Peel Park was purpose-built and opened in 1923.
  For many years it was known as the Coronet Picture House.
  Sound was installed around 1930 and a new wide screen in 1954.
  The cinema suffered a serious fire in 1955 and after recovering closed finally in 1958.
  The building was stripped and re-purposed as a wholesale food distribution warehouse but was destroyed by fire in 2003 and had to be quickly demolished.
  A terrace of new houses now stand on the site.
  The purpose-built brick and stone Tennyson Cinema was located to the south between Dacre Street, North Wing and Otley Road.
  and opened in 1923 as the 1166 seat Tennyson Picture House.
  Sound was installed in 1930, and in 1954 Cinemascope was installed while seating was further reduced to 1095.
  The Tennyson Cinema closed in 1961.
  The premises reopened as the Tennyson Bingo and Social Club, but later the building was demolished for road widening.
caption: The Robin Hood public house.
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